Earlier today:
Me: None of you has seen the movie Mimic?
Students: [silence]
Me: But it’s so good! It’s about assimilation, and multicultural anxiety, and giant bugs eating people in the New York subway!
Student: Was it ever even out in theaters?
Me: Of course it was. It was popular. It came out when I was in college.
Student: …so, like, in the mid-seventies, right?
Me: Oh look at that. You just failed my class.
The Procrastination Salon 
Thanks for my afternoon chuckle!
(I remember seeing that movie…IN THE THEATRE…)
priceless
What do kids know.
I called one of the kids *Honey-Bunch* today and the whole class fell on the floor laughing. They thought I was referring to a cereal!!!
And what were you referring to?
;^P
Oh, they do tread on thin, thin ice, do they not?
LOL! Of course, the fact that your students think a hottie like you is even older than me (and no one is older than me) makes me worry about their powers of observation.
Oh my. Your students don’t know how good they have it!
It came out when I was in college.
[weeping]
Did anyone remember to reserve my space at the nursing home?
(And really, I think you may have been stretching it a tad with “popular;” isn’t it the movie that killed Mira Sorvino’s career?)
isn’t it the movie that killed Mira Sorvino’s career?
Well…yes.
I remember it and not going to see it. I’m not licensed for giant bugs, scary movies, or Kevin Costner.
Too bad about that kid who failed your class 🙂